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Eijin Nimura (二村英仁, born 24 August 1970) is a Japanese violinist. He was designated "UNESCO Artist for Peace" in 1998 as the first Japanese to be chosen.

Profile
Eijin Nimura was born in Tokyo and started playing the violin at the age of four. On the advice of a great violinist Isaac Stern, he spent every summer during the age of nine to sixteen visiting the United States to receive private tuition from Dorothy DeLay of the Julliard School. When he was eleven years old, he won praise from the renowned conductor Eugene Ormandy who expressed high hopes for his future. Nimura graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts, after attending the Senior High School of Music attached to the Faculty of Music. 1996 was also the year that he launched his career, performing mostly outside of Japan. He has received acclaim for his performances at the major concert halls in Europe. Eijin Nimura has established a brilliant career as a violinist, performing concertos with leading orchestras both at home and abroad over the years, at the same time, as an "UNESCO Artist for Peace", he is actively engaged in efforts that contribute to society through music.

Awards

 * 1994: The second prize at the Paganini Competition
 * 1995: The first prize at the International Music Competition of Japan
 * 1996: The Idemitsu Music Award
 * 1998: UNESCO Artist for Peace

Social activities
Throughout his performing career, Eijin Nimura has also been a regular performer at charity concerts. In recognition of his numerous social activities, such as the donation of artificial limbs to rehabilitation centres established in Bosnia-Herzegovina after the conflict in the region, he was appointed "UNESCO Artist for Peace" by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 1998, the first Japanese to be chosen. He has subsequently given performances in Sarajevo, as well as areas such as Kosovo and Palestine. His activities were featured in a documentary "What Music Can Do – Violinist Eijin Nimura" broadcast in 2000 on NHK General TV, the main channel for NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation); and a two hour documentary series was broadcast over three consecutive nights on NHK BS2. Since 2011, he has been actively performing all over Japan in support as the North-Eastern Japan-Off the Pacific Ocean Earthquake Relief Fund and Kumamoto Earthquake Relief Fund established by the National Federation of UNESCO Associations in Japan. Other additional supports are ongoing for the victims of earthquakes from all over the world such as Indonesia, Nepal and Italy etc. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of UNESCO in 2015, he was commissioned by the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris to be held as the commemorative events in Japan, he carried out "Prayer for Peace Concert Prayer for Peace Concert in 70 years from the bombings and UNESCO 70th Anniversary" at Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki under the patronage of UNESCO, related ministries of Japan in September. Besides, he got applause from a large number of government agencies to make the concert "Nimura Project" successful in the "UNESCO Youth Forum" dispatched from the governments of 195 countries at the UNESCO Headquarters in October of that year.

Possessions of instruments

 * Antonio Stradivari "Stella" of 1707
 * Giovanni Battista Rogeri of 1670

Discography

 * What Music Can Do (Ongaku ni dekirukoto)/Sony Classical
 * From the Past to the Present (Toki wo koete)/Sony Classical
 * Scarlet Melody -in collaboration with the U.K.'s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Sony Classical
 * Film Music with the symphony orchestra -in collaboration with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra

Appearances on media

 * The classical music programme "Untitled Concert"
 * The documentaries "What Music Can Do – Violinist Eijin Nimura"
 * KDD's television commercial "Project 001 - Prague"
 * The classical music programme "TOKYU SILVESTER CONCERT"
 * The talk show "Tetsuko's Room"
 * The talk show "Hello from Studio Park"
 * The news programme "Tetsuya Chikushi's News 23"
 * The award-winning "Sealed Melody"
 * The performances the main and closing theme tunes for the drama series "Dreaming Grapes"
 * The magazine "Newsweek" as 100 Japanese respected from all over the world